Attempting to remove extra “edges” from truncated icosahedron lead to excessively global consequences
Edge Selection
The connected faces to edges of interest lie in the same plane. The edge angle is the angle between the normals of the two.
Can select all edges of interest by selecting one edge in edge selection mode, then in menu Select &gt; Select Similar &gt; Face Angle

then X Dissolve edges.
This is same behaviour as limited dissolve delimiting by Normal
Limited Dissolve.

Select all, and hit X choose limited dissolve. The use normal to delimit, ie the angular difference between the two faces (or less).